Think My Blog Is Taking Ages To Load - How To Troubleshoot/Fix This?

Hi,

As the title says, I'm pretty sure that my Wordpress blog is taking quite a while to load up. I was just wondering is there any kind of website tool that will find out if the site is taking long to load, and which can highlight the widgets/sections that are slowing the site down?

My website is http://www.footyblog.net


Thanks for any help.

 

Google code can address your problem, the site have a list of tools and apps that you can use to check your website's speed, some tools like PageSpeed, Firebug and YSlow can analyze your site and gives recommendations on how to solve your site's speed problem.

You could also google articles that tackles site speed optimization. Here is a good site speed optimization article.

You can find the tools to optimize your site speed here.

 

too many images and flash files , try reducing them , it will ultimately speed up your site , or hire some professional like me to reduce the page size i can help you out

 

Well, it seems to load pretty quick for me. The background image seems to take a couple seconds to load, and the page continues to load for a few seconds, but otherwise pretty quick. Techno Primer listed several good tools you can use, the same ones I use and recommend. There are many ways to shave off a few milliseconds here and there (more for dialup users). Compressing images and generally cutting down the number of different connections a user has to make to load your site will go a long ways. Also, try to move as many external images and scripts to your own domain as you can, this cuts out external domain name lookups and more connections. Check out those tools and you'll see how much is happening in the background.

 

You might find installing the WP Super Cache plugin will speed things up

 

You really need those many widgets? I recently learnt that less widgets and images make your pages load fast. WP super cache also helps for Wordpress blogs.

 

I'm new here so I'm not sure this is the right thing to say but your site loaded perfectly fine which made me wonder if you were just plugging a link? Anyone, please let me know if I'm out of line.